Jay Dee
Active Member
Hello and happy new year, FDMBers!
I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and that Santa Paws was good to all your kitties!
I'd like a spreadsheet review and dose advice, please. Acro-cat Snuggie was doing well at 8u in early December, but his blues were high and he spent quite some time in the yellows. I decided to increase his dose to get into lower blues and see fewer yellows. (NOTE: I'm not striving to get him into lots of greens. The fear of hypo was too much for me, so my plan is to make sure he spends lots of time in blues and low yellows).
Once i increased his dose, his numbers got worse. We are now up to 12 units. I have seen a few blues in the first few cycles of a dose increase, but I'm seeing far too many pinks and reds.
He was Dx with a UTI in mid Nov and was on Orbax for 6 weeks. The vet saw the bacteria in the microscope (urine was drawn w sterile needle/cysto). We sent it out for C&S but the lab wasn't able to grow anything. His BGs started to decline shortly after we started the antibiotics, but then they went up again. I will take him back to the vet once the antibiotics are out of his system, but I'm wondering if maybe his dose is too high? I know that's usually not the case with acro cats. I asked for advice in the Lantus/Levemir board but wanted to cross post here because I know the acromegaly complicates all of this, and there's tons of experience on this board.
Thank you in advance!!
I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and that Santa Paws was good to all your kitties!
I'd like a spreadsheet review and dose advice, please. Acro-cat Snuggie was doing well at 8u in early December, but his blues were high and he spent quite some time in the yellows. I decided to increase his dose to get into lower blues and see fewer yellows. (NOTE: I'm not striving to get him into lots of greens. The fear of hypo was too much for me, so my plan is to make sure he spends lots of time in blues and low yellows).
Once i increased his dose, his numbers got worse. We are now up to 12 units. I have seen a few blues in the first few cycles of a dose increase, but I'm seeing far too many pinks and reds.
He was Dx with a UTI in mid Nov and was on Orbax for 6 weeks. The vet saw the bacteria in the microscope (urine was drawn w sterile needle/cysto). We sent it out for C&S but the lab wasn't able to grow anything. His BGs started to decline shortly after we started the antibiotics, but then they went up again. I will take him back to the vet once the antibiotics are out of his system, but I'm wondering if maybe his dose is too high? I know that's usually not the case with acro cats. I asked for advice in the Lantus/Levemir board but wanted to cross post here because I know the acromegaly complicates all of this, and there's tons of experience on this board.
Thank you in advance!!
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